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[Oct. 1, 
Political Affairs in September. 
Character of the Clouds. 
Number of days on which each 7 Cirrus. Cirro-stratus. Cirro-cumulus. Cumulus, Cumulo-stratus. Nimbus 
description has occurred. >9 11 8 19 20 11 
The weather of the period being naturally 
considered with respect to its influence on the 
harvest, becomes a subject of unusual interest, 
stretching very far beyond the general consi¬ 
deration of a meteorological register. The 
first half of the period, which includes the last 
week of August, and the first ten days of Sep¬ 
tember, comes under the denomination of fair, 
rain fell on six of those days, but in small 
drizzling showers, except on one occasion. 
The latter part of the period, i .e. from the 11 th 
of September to the close, rain has fallen in 
heavier showers, and more frequently—viz. 
on ten days, and thunder storms of heavy, and 
in some instances, of destructive character, 
have occurred. Meteoric, or shooting stars, 
have been of frequeht occurrence, as have 
heavy winds from the westward. 
POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN SEPTEMBER. 
GREAT BRITAIN. 
HE chief domestic topics of the 
month, have been the King’s visit 
to Ireland, attended by no circum¬ 
stances but festivity in that land of hos¬ 
pitality—and his subsequent departure 
for Hanover and other parts of the 
Continent. 
The only public act of government 
during his short stay in London, was 
the dismissal of General Sir Robert 
Wilson from the army, without an as¬ 
signed reason: hut ascribed to his hav¬ 
ing attended the, Queen’s Funeral, and 
remonstrated with the military for bar¬ 
barously firing on the people after the 
affray at Cumberland-gate had termi¬ 
nated. No circumstance for many 
years has created more general dissa¬ 
tisfaction than this exercise of power, 
and a subsciiption to indemnify Sir 
Robert has been set on foot. 
The Coroner’s Jury on Honey, have 
satisfied the friends of the constitution 
by a verdict of Manslaughter against 
the Life Guards concerned; and in re¬ 
gard to Francis, we have recorded that 
another jury found a verdict of Wilful 
Murder. No means have, however, 
been adopted to satisfy the laws of God 
and Man in regard to these enormous 
crimes! 
The continued wet weather led one 
class of the community to hope that 
agricultural produce would rise in 
price; and another class, the consumers, 
to fear that such might be the case. 
There has been some advance, hut it 
has not been maintained. 
SPAIN. 
In this country, the equivocal policy 
of the King and Court, with signs of 
treachery to the noble document called 
the Constitution, have driven many of 
the patriots into principles of repub¬ 
licanism :—and really if kings will not 
respect the people's rights, the people 
seem to have no alternative but to do 
without them. A limited hereditary 
monarchy is the best of all govern¬ 
ments, but if kings will not be limited, 
they must not blame men for becoming 
republicans. If the King of Spain can 
overcome the prejudices of his order 
and education, he may be the first of 
sovereigns, because at the head of the 
freest people in Europe. 
It seems the King has left Madrid, 
and that this circumstance has given 
rise to great inquietude. Riego, a pa¬ 
triotic general, has been superseded 
on a charge of republicanism, and the 
renowned people of Saragossa have 
espoused his interest. It appears also 
that plans are organizing in Spain by 
French republicans, to assail the tot¬ 
tering power of the Hourbons in Franee, 
where the dread of Napoleon’s military 
ascendancy no longer checks the hopes 
of patriotism.. The French demand 
their Charter and the Spaniards their 
Constitution, with which their sover¬ 
eigns hope to dispense with impunity. 
NORTH AMERICA. 
The Union has been further aug¬ 
mented in extent and capability by the 
formal annexation of Florida, of which 
possession was lately taken by the Re¬ 
publican General Jackson, in conformi¬ 
ty to the treaty with Spain. 
TURKEY. 
This empire, so disgraceful to human 
nature, in its misery and despotism, 
seems likely, as Napoleon told Lord 
Whit vorth, to be about to fall to pieces 
under its own weight. Nothing but tile 
contemptible principle of legitimacy, 
cherished by the members of the Holy 
Alliauce, permits it to he suffered that 
the fairest portions of the earth should 
he so abused. Whether Russia will or 
will not move is not at present certain, 
hut the following documents have ap¬ 
peared in the German journals : 
Vienna, Sept. 6.—The following is 
the substance of the note which the 
Ottoman 
